requital.

An act of repayment or response to a benefit, injury, or other treatment received.

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Words that belong together

• in requital for
• a bitter requital
• requital of a kindness

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In requital for the shelter she had given him, he repaired the house before winter.

She saw the verdict as requital for a betrayal the court knew nothing about.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural requitals for particular acts of repayment. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.